VISITORS FROM THE RED STAR by August Smith

Poems from the Edge of Possibility.

In this prismatic debut, August Smith charts a course through the  weird contours of the UFO phenomenon: the lore, the stories, the  theories, and the questions it raises about belief and reality. 

In poems that span a variety of styles–formal to experimental,  strange to sincere–Smith harvests insights from otherworldly tales;  expect cyclopean robots, unsettling dreams, alien erotica, frogmen  careening through the skies, and, at the center of it all, the wandering  poet trying to make sense of the impossible.

Concluding with an essay, this hybridized collection asks: what can the paranormal teach us about poetry? And what  do poems have to do with our mysterious visitors in the skies?

Read an excerpt here and here.

Cover illustration by Chris Harnan.

93 pages